The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

1 The Has< CHRISTIAN Beacon has enteret
| it seventh year.
A Presbyterian church has been organ
| lied at Gsoster.
| The Cold Water Herald celebrated it
first anniversary, last week.
Natchez now comes to the 'front.' social,
| with the prospect OF kirmess.
A Deer Creek planter has lost IA mulei
| from Buffalo gnats, this season.
Camp Henry is improving daily, ant
will be thing of beauty, by June.
| A Lodge of the Farmers Alliance wa
established in Brookhaven, last week.
Mrs. A. c. Monette, of Natchez, dieC
| very suddenly, at her home last week.
| The Natchez Fencibles received thir
| teen new members at their last meeting.
The Clarke County Times made its de6ss
last week We wish it a successful lie.
Smedes' Gulf View Hotel at Mississippi
City, is now open and ready to receive Wis
itors.
| The Methodist church at Carlisle wa.
dedicated Sunday, by Rev. C. K. Mar
shall.
| Hon. c. B. Howry, of Oxford, has beer
elected President of the Mississippi & Ten
nessee r. r.
| Rev. J. Hartwell Edwards, of Oxford
was recently married to Miss Watson, o
Ridge Spring. S. c.
Yazoo City and county is entirely pro
| hibition now, as the last saloons wer,
closed last week.
| Anchorage is the name of new postofict
established in Coahoma county, Miss, Pau
Waddell, postmaster.
| The Brandon Republican and Hatties.
burg Courier complain of receiving toe
much counterfeit money.
| The surviving members of the Westville
Guards, 10th Mississippi Regiment, are tc
have reunion July 2lst.
Columbus Lewis, Mississippi City bow
has been given year in Jail for throwing
bricks at passenger trains.
The East Mississippi Times remarks
that Starkville is the Elgin of the South
in the production of butter
Mrs. Sue White, wife of Mr.. J. W
White, of Kosciusko, died last week, after
protracted and painful Hines.
The fruit and vegetable business is un-
doubtedly doing wonders for Crysta
| Springs, and that entire section.
On the second week in July, the Camp
Meeting will commence at the Seashore
Camp Ground, to continue two weeks.
The Macon girls have organized Cook
ing Club, and the gentlemen, not to be
outdone, have organized dancing club.
| The Grass-Growers' Convention is now
in session at Aberdeen. A musical concert
was given last night, in honor of the dele
gates.
Rev. Mr.. Stiyers, rector of the Episcopal
church at Grenada, who was shot by Capt
W. 2. fowler, died of his wounds, the next
day.
Several citizens OF Oxford have imported
three Russian blood hounds, for the specia
benefit OF chicken thieves, and other evi
does.
The Holly Springs silver cornet banc
will furnish the music during the com
mencement exercises, at the University OF
Oxford, in June.
Miss Agnes Garrison, of Canton, and
pupil of Central Female Institute, Clinton
died at the Institute last Thursday, after
an illness of one day.
A man was convicted and sentenced t.
the penitentiafy in the Sariis circuit cour
for forging arailroad pass. Let the edi
tors take warning.-Panolian.
Mr.. John n. Bush, formerly of Learned
this county, has removed to Vicksburg t,
practice law with Martin Marshall. Tn.
loss to Kinds is Warren's gain.
Mr.. Rudolph Hampton, young Missis
sippian, has been promoted in the Genera
Land Office at Washington, from $l40(
position to one paying $1,000 yea.
The expectation of lumber from the por
of Pascagoula during the month of April
amounts to 2,249,517 lineal feet, and O
hewn timber, 49,, A 40 cubic feet.
The vote on the donation Of 100000 b,
Columbus TO aid in building the Tombig
bee Railroad, stood as follows: Total vote
635 for donation, 629; against dona
} ton, 6.
The Secretary of the Interior has recon-
mended the Attorney General to institut
suit against j. y. Sage, for $4,000 fee
ofpine lumber cut off public land in thi
State.
The cool nights of the past week in tn
Yazoo Delta have injured the young cotto
to such an extent that many farmers will
have to replant their entire crop, to insur
a stand.
Miss Lizzie Wright, of Vicksburg, fol
mer pupil of the |. /. & c., was present 6
the decoration ceremonies at Port Gibson
and took down Senator WalthalPs adore.
: in short hand.
| The ladies of the Brookhaven Cam
Meeting propose to run an excursion froI
Yazoo City to the Sea Shore Camp Nee
: ing this year, similar to the one run b
them last year.
Rev. DIR. Hoyt, so we'll known and b,
= loved throughout Mississippi, died sudder
ly, at the residence of DIR. Flynn, in Ne
J Orleans, Friday evening, while preparin
for evening service.
= The $50 convicts employed by Contra
L tor Mcdonald on the Birmingham and A
v llntic Railroad will be put to work on Il
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad below Ha
tiesburg, on May LIST.
The w. C. T. U. of West Point, co
" templates the establishment of a Hon
. Rest, where the young men of that plac
!. and also any strangers who may be ill, CT
g find home care and comforts during the
a illness.
is Some unknown person or persons enter,
St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Hol
Springs recently, and tore down the stat
lie OF the virgin, broke it in pieces and to
IF the flowers away from the altar and thre
20 sand over it.
At the annual excursion picnic given
Chatawa last week by the people Of Sur
nit McComb and Magnolia, fifty perso
:, we're poisoned by eating ice cream. Thou
= all were severely sick for a while, the
n were no fatal result,
be Mr.. j. NJ. Head, President of the Sta
or dard Charcoal, Iron and Chemical Coz
II. pany, of Nashville, Tenn, was in Pass
ne goula last week, with the view of organ
i'd ing stock company for locating furna
eel on Pascagoula river to manufacture CO
re alcohol, ETC., by the Pierce process.
ls. 1t was stated recently that Capt. Har
had perfected arrangements to build I
ri Guii q Ship Island Railroad, but Il
Is statement was an error. He has on
p made arrangements to complete the 70
&c from Cotton Plant to Pcntotoc, and
Mt work between Hattiesburg and the Co
viii be continued as at present
Misses Bannie Allen and Addie Harry
E's telegraph operators at Brookhaven, a
ed Misses Emma and Mary Bee, assist.
- bookkeepers in the railroad office at ii
:, place, were the recipients of very hal
IA some present from their fellow employ
last week, consisting OF BRUSSELS carr
~ elegant rugs, and revolving Office cha
he for their office at the depot.
NJ A we'll was bored at the Holly Spril
WIN compress to the depth of over eighty f.
I'm but did not strike water. Some pecul
nts phenomena occurred, one feature of VIII
still exists. When the well was first bo
draft of air came up strong enough
a., blow hat placed over the mouth OF
~ well, away. This has been reversed, 4
N now in place of the upward draft, is g
81 ton. A boy placed his straw hat over
a' mouth of the well and had to hold FRI
to the brim to keep it from being drs
in. Pieces OF paper were allowed to q
over the well and were quickly drawn